The New York Philharmonic’s next music leader, slowly revealing facets of his personality, used his latest visit to showcase his political conscience. By Joshua Barone When Lisa Moore turned 60 her ...

Shortly after the famous 1971 riot in the Attica Correctional Facility in New York that killed 33 prisoners and 10 prison employees, Frederic Rzewski wrote a 19-minute composition for piano based on a ...

This Friday, A Far Cry, the Boston-based string ensemble, presents a Jordan Hall concert including Frederic Rzewski’s “Les Moutons de Panurge.” The 1969 piece finds the Westfield-born Rzewski’s ...

The last wonted Walt Disney Concert Hall program this year, barring a miracle COVID-19 cure, was on March 10. The pandemic had just begun to divide people from one another, and attendance was said to ...

Frederic Rzewski, the American-born composer who rejected both serialism and minimalism in his struggle to create a significant body of work over the past half-century, much of it politically themed, ...

Frederic Rzewski, a formidable composer and pianist who wrote and performed music that was at once stylistically eclectic and politically committed, died Saturday at his summer home in Montiano, Italy ...

Jazz listeners are all too familiar with the controversy that surrounded “downtown” Manhattan’s crossbreeding of jazz, rock, modern classical and world music during the 1970s and ’80s. Fewer may ...

We learn of the death of the composer and pianist Frederic Rzewski. In tribute, we revisit a Gramophone 'Contemporary Composer' article written by Jed Distler and first published on our August 2018 ...

The music of the American composer Frederic Rzewski, who has died aged 83 after a heart attack, drew on his flair for improvisation as a pianist and strong leftwing political engagement. Invention and ...

In the rarefied, ivory-tower world of new music, the formidable American composer-pianist Frederic Rzewski comes as a blast of fresh air. The titles of his pieces tell you this is a man who engages ...

In the rarefied, ivory-tower world of new music, the formidable American composer-pianist Frederic Rzewski comes as a blast of fresh air. The titles of his pieces tell you this is a man who engages ...